Job Description

Role & responsibilities As a Backend software developer/Engineer, you will interact with the engineering team to solve problems and build, extend, optimize and refactor the back-end architecture of our growing products. This will involve working on our existing codebase along with new projects. Airtel Africa Digital Labs (AADL) has a highly passionate engineering-driven environment where your contribution will be felt immediately. All teams at AADL are involved in every part of our development life cycle. Brainstorm, contribute new ideas, conceive innovative strategies, and implement solutions to difficult problems Own the entire development lifecycle as you prototype, create, optimise, test, launch, and refine Build features that will reach millions of users Play a critical role in ensuring modular and scalable design and architecture of Backend Applications Keeping up to date with best industry practices and lead adopting new technologies Set high standards for monitoring and getting to know challenges faced by customers and improving the experience In nutshell you will "Discover, Design, Develop, Deploy, Debug. Repeat!" Preferred candidate profile Experience in developing RESTful APIs Strong understanding on both Monolithic and Micro Services architectures. Hands-on experience in developing and deploying Micro Services components preferably using Spring Boot Experience with version control system such as Git & BitBucket Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases. Nice to have Jenkins and CI/CD Knowledge Knowledge on Postman and SoapUi Knowledge on build tools like Maven & Gradle Lastly, its important to have fun! Bringing a sense of humor and camaraderie to the team allows for good relationships and communication to flourish. Excellent Java skills, Understanding of Spring framework & MVC approach Strong knowledge of Performance optimization and caching techniques. Strong Object Oriented Programming concepts, data structure and algorithms Good experience with databases and Schema design